On October 3, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Tel Aviv and was pressured by Israeli hawks to green light an attack on Iran. Less than 10 days later, a conveniently-timed terror plot hatched by a used car salesman was exposed to implicate Iran and create the pretext for a military...
Report: U.S. won’t keep any troops in Iraq - Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Marine Corps Times
An anonymous source at the white house says that other than embassy staff and ~160 troops at the embassy, all other American troops will be pulled out.
President Obama is sending U.S. combat troops to Africa to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and hunt down the terrorist leader Joseph Kony.
Current battlefields: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen
Next up: Uganda, Sudan, Congo, Central African Republic
When the next...
US had 'frighteningly simplistic' view of Afghanistan, says McChrystal | World news | guardian.co.uk
Mcchrystal seems to think so
"The US and Nato are only "50% of the way" towards achieving their goals in Afghanistan, he told the Council on Foreign Relations."
Here’s an interesting article from the Washington Post about the heavy influence of the Pentagon on the funding and production of Hollywood movies, making them a little more than propaganda disguised as entertainment.
25 years later, how 'Top Gun' made America love war
The International Council on Security (ICOS) conducted a survey among Afghani citizens to understand their perceptions of the military presence in their country. The vast majority have no clue why their are being occupied by the NATO World Police.
92% are unaware of the 9/11 events.
40%...
Very interesting. While everyone was in a whirlwind over Clinton's sex scandal, Ron Paul was calling for impeachment of the president for another reason: the illegal bombing of Sudan & Iraq without Congressional approval. Ron correctly predicts in 1998 that our foreign meddling & attacking...
Ann Coulter debates the editor in chief of Reason Magazine, Matt Welch, on the John Stossel show. Here we have a lively debate about Homeland Insecurity.
Coulter comes out and blatantly states that the Patriot Act is "great." She says that the United States should choose countries to invade...
“Think of the use of drone air strikes as summary executions, extra-judicial killings justified by faceless bureaucrats using who-knows-what ‘intelligence,’ with no oversight whatsoever and you get the idea that we have slipped into spooky new world where joystick gods manipulating robots...
Brig. General John Adams calls for some serious cuts to defence spending. He makes a compelling argument that the current behemoth is ill suited to the 21st century and actual national defence. It's nice to see military brass calling for cuts in a major player in US fiscal policy. Every dime...
NO WAY!!!! Who woulda thunk that giving no bid contracts to the at the time VP's "former" co. that anything like this could possibly happen!?!?
Pentagon under fire over war contracts - Yahoo! News
Says the bi-partisan committee:
"Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted...
Ron Paul has stated he would end support of Israel.
Ron Paul has stated if North Korea invaded South Korea he would not respond.
Ron Paul has stated that Iran should have a nuclear weapon.
2024!! Keep voting for the Establishment and they will make sure it lasts every bit of that and more.
We have always been at war with Eastasia. :n00b:
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024
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Ike's full 15 minute farewell address.
Ike was the best president we've had since Andrew Jackson. Wouldn't it be nice if presidents spoke like this today, instead of like they were talking to kindergartners?
http://youtu.be/CWiIYW_fBfY
U.S. military: Wave of attacks in Iraq 'eerily similar' to last year
What changed since the US led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq?
Is Iraq better off today?
U.S. military: Wave of attacks in Iraq 'eerily similar' to last year - CNN.com
Having spent a painful 3 months without initiating any new wars, NATO & the US are poising for what looks to be another war with Syria in the near future.
French General: Strike on Syria "feasible"
US poised to call for Syria's Assad to go
Russian envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has warned...
That's what the guys at Moderate Voice are asking, along with the folks at RTV. They've all but disappeared, now that emperor Obama is ensconced on the throne. The only ones still there are the libertarians and a few diehards from the left. The majority of them hitched their wagon to the Obama...
HARBESON: The honor in war » Opinions » News and Tribune
So is she railing against war or unjust wars?
I get the feeling she can't separate the honoring of sacrifice with the act of war herself. I also get the feeling she doesn't see war justified in any circumstance, which makes me...